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Corporate governance and labour law: Situating Australia's ‘regulatory style’
Author(s) -
Marshall Shelley,
Mitchell Richard,
O'Donnell Anthony
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/1038411109105439
Subject(s) - corporate governance , labour law , corporate law , capitalism , exceptionalism , commercial law , style (visual arts) , common law , business , law and economics , law , political science , economics , management , archaeology , politics , history
This article gives an overview of the ‘varieties of capitalism’ and ‘legal origins’ literature to develop a stylised model of various complementarities between corporate governance and the management of labour, with an emphasis on the role of corporate law and labour law. The authors then apply this model to interrogate the development of Australian labour law and corporate law, and consider whether a case can be made for an Australian exceptionalism.